poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

Until 2022, Afghanistan was the country with the largest opium poppy cultivation area in the ... to grow opium after some 20 years. "Our fields are no longer as fertile as before," Asadollah ...

The poppy fields must be destroyed. But just as this devoutly Muslim nation did not become the world's leading opium supplier overnight, uprooting Afghanistan's poppy mind-set promises to be a ...

Afghanistan was the world's largest supplier of opium before the Taliban banned ... authorities had sent brigades to ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...

FARAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In fields less than a 10 ... Farah has doubled its poppy harvest in five years, is Afghanistan's third largest opium producing region and occupies a key position ...

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. Satellite images show that almost all opium poppy crops in Afghanistan have been destroyed, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov said in an interview with TASS.

the most in Afghanistan and far ahead of the second-place Western region, which turned out 24%. Opium-poppy production was stable in southern Afghanistan, but the country saw marked increases in ...